Subject & Research Guides: Indigenous Studies: Home

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Saint Mary's University is in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq.

This guide is a resource for research and study in the interdisciplinary aspects of Indigenous studies.It particularly focuses on Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada.

These images of petroglyphs in Kejmkujik National Park are part of the Mi’kmaq Portraits Collection at the Nova Scotia Museum (MP0002, MP0007, MP0005)

Featured Books

Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez
Publication Date: 2022-01-18
An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.
War at the Margins by Lin Poyer
Publication Date: 2022-12-31
War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the foundations for their twenty-first-century emergence as players on the world's political stage.
Atiqput by Carol Payne (Editor); Beth Greenhorn (Editor); Deborah Kigjugalik Webster (Editor); Christina Williamson (Editor);
Publication Date: 2022-09-16
For over two decades, Inuit collaborators living across Inuit Nunangat and in the South have returned names to hundreds of previously anonymous Inuit seen in historical photographs held by Library and Archives Canada as part of Project Naming. This innovative photo-based history research initiative was established by the Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the national archive.
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships by Shalene Wuttunee Jobin
Publication Date: 2023-03-01
Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships explains settler colonialism through the lens of economic exploitation, using Indigenous methodologies and critical approaches. What is the relationship between economic progress in the land now called Canada and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples? And what gifts embedded within Indigenous world views speak to miyo-pimâtisiwin, the good life, and specifically to good economic relations?

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